BANGALORE: The fate of the controversial Kannada film "Sathyananda" , which is alleged to contain some scenes depicting the life of Swami Nithyananda will be decided by a trial court in Bangalore city. The Karnataka high court has disposed off a miscellaneous first appeal (MFA) filed by Madan Patel, the producer of the film in this regard by remitting the matter back to the trail court .

Justice N Ananda has has asked the trial judge to take a decision after viewing the film personally on or before January 10,2013.The injunction order passed by the trial court against the screening of the film will continue till such a decision. The trial court had passed an injunction order of on September 20,2011 following a petition filed by swami Nithyananda .

Nithyananda had claimed that the film was defamatory.

Madan Patel had questioned the same before the high court. In the meantime, interestingly, a 5-member examining committee at the censor board unanimously rejected the censor certificate on the ground that the film was defamatory to Nithyananda Swami.However, the revising committee gave an opinion that the film can be granted a certificate.